The War We See podcast

A podcast about the visual representation of war and its powerful role in shaping public perceptions of conflicts | Hosted by @herazhar

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🎙️To wrap up the inaugural series, this special episode offers my reflections on past conversations & three previously unheard excerpts from past conversations. Thank you all for listening! The pod will be back soon after a brief hiatus 🏝️

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Part 1 of a very special 2-part episode, feat. the inspirational artist & writer David Birkin.

Known for powerful, photography-led installations & public interventions, David’s work confronts imperial power head-on while imagining creative forms of resistance.

🎧 Out now.

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Delighted to have brilliant fellow IWM doctoral researcher Katy Thornton on this week to chat about her research using the photographer Tim Hetherington archives to explore themes of power, representation & agency.

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This week, I was thrilled & honoured to sit down with the wonderful award-winning documentary filmmaker and photojournalist Fiona Lloyd-Davies @Studio9films to talk about her extraordinary career in conflict film and photography.

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Very pleased to have Dr Ali Fisher on to talk about terrorist imagery, the visual records from Gaza, navigating the study of sensitive content, & developing data tools like BlackLight and Mujahid Mind AI!

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Delighted to speak to Rebecca Newell, Head of Art at the IWM, about how influential the work of artists has continued to be for our visual understanding of war, inclu. discussions of some iconic art pieces!

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Very excited to share my conversation w/ the IWM’s Dr Toby Haggith. Toby is one of my favourite historians, curators & in this episode, we talk about Holocaust imagery, film restoration, & so much more!

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And lastly, Ed and Crofton will be speaking about Cosmopolemos at a symposium on 31 October at the Truth and Photography Symposium at Weston Library in Oxford: (https://t.co/hPQ3PBsJKH

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New episode out today with artist and photographer Edmund Clark and investigative journalist Crofton Black. This was a fantastic chat - Ed and Crofton are doing some truly fascinating and important work!

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Go see some of the images from Cosmopolemos in a collaborative exhibition with the Incite Project at Photo Oxford, running between the 25th of October and the 16th of November at Pembroke College JCR Art Gallery. 

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"Unsilenced: Sexual Violence in Conflict" is on at the Imperial War Museum in London and runs to 2 November 2025. If you haven't already, I would highly recommend visiting the IWM and seeing this exhibition for yourself: https://t.co/KYETYKuky9

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Episode 2 w/ the IWM's Helen Upcraft out today! Helen is lead curator of the ongoing fantastic exhibition on sexual violence in conflict & we discuss her work in the film archives, her interest in soldiers' own photos, & handling sensitive visual material.
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Episode 1 out today! In the podcast's inaugural episode, I talk to @DrChrisFuller about the incredible evolution of photo reconnaissance, drone imagery, the military's increasing weaponisation of the camera, the Gulf War, & the ongoing war in Ukraine.
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Trailer for The War We See podcast out now! First episode on 24 September, wherever you find your podcasts.

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